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Madame Bovary, often ranked among the greatest novels of all time, is considered Gustave Flaubert’s masterpiece, with authors from Henry James to Proust to Nabokov heaping it with praise.
The novel tells the story of Madame Bovary, a commoner wife of a country doctor, and her attempts to escape the drudgery
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 20
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English
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"In 1952 Afghanistan, Abdullah and his sister Pari live with their father and step-mother in the small village of Shadbagh. Their father, Saboor, is constantly in search of work and they struggle together through poverty and brutal winters"--Provided by OCLC.
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Four women, part of a group of classmates from Blue Ridge women's college who traveled down the Mississippi on a homemade raft in 1965, reunite thirty-five years later to share their memories, examine how their lives have turned out, and sprinkle the ashes of a fifth friend in the waters off New Orleans.
7) White guys
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English
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A twenty-year reunion is the catalyst that causes Billy Mogavero to make the social leap to respectability and conformity; but when his new wife, Maureen, and their unborn child are victims of a drive-by shooting, Billy's life takes a sudden turn.
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The Maxwells and the Popes, best friends for years, face a multidimensional crisis when thirteen-year-old Michael Maxwell surprises his mother, Teke, in bed with Sam Pope, and runs into the street where he is struck by a truck driven by Teke's childhood boyfriend, Grady.
14) The prodigal
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Abram's daughters volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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Leah, having taken over the care of her younger siblings following the death of her mother, is also having to deal with the return of her sister who was once shunned by the Amish community and is now in a period of Proving, but her faith is sorely tested when she discovers a past betrayal that has robbed her of the happiness she might have had with Jonas.
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HarperCollins
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English
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Now, in this collection of interconnected short stories, Jennifer Haigh returns to the vividly imagined world of Bakerton, Pennsylvania, a coal mining town rocked by decades of painful transition. From its heyday during two World Wars through its slow decline, Bakerton is a town that refuses to give up gracefully, binding--sometimes cruelly - succeeding generations to the place that made them.
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Samantha's delight in her baby daughter does not keep her from feeling she has lost something of herself in giving up her artistic dreams to become a mother, but she is able to come to terms with her doubts, as well as secrets of the past, when a box of her late mother Iris's belongings arrives on her doorstep, containing revelations about Iris, and Sam's grandmother Violet.
17) Gilead
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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In 1956, toward the end of his life, Reverend John Ames begins a letter to his young son, sharing the story of his life and explaining how his faith influenced his choices and actions.
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2013
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English
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Cathie Pelletier draws readers back to the beloved town of Mattagash, a seemingly quiet New England outpost in Maine. Yet Mattagash is anything but tranquil. While its citizens bicker publicly over small-town theft or their neighbors' offensive mailboxes, they privately struggle through deeper life issues: scandal, loss, failed ambitions, and the scars of war.
19) The dilemma
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Treachery and blackmail shake up a real estate mogul's marriage in this debut novel by the #1 international–bestselling author of Sheer Abandon.
All Francesca Channing must do in order to keep her marriage alive, her children safe, her life intact, is to tell a lie. One simple, straightforward lie. But it isn't that simple or straightforward at all.
Her husband is charismatic, powerful and rich-and he adores her. He's also manipulative and...
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